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Biology without conservation: an environmental misfit and contradiction in terms

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorOxford University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-15T17:49:44Z
dc.date.available2021-09-15T17:49:44Z
dc.date.issued1989
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.
dc.description.abstractEvery biological organism is per se a conservationist, defending its life. Nonconservation is death. Although not moral agents, organisms are normative systems that value life intrinsically, for what each individual life is in itself, without further contributory reference beyond conserving that kind. An ecosystem is thus a systemic web of intrinsic values defended and instrumental values captured. Humans can and ought to use their environment resourcefully, conserving their own kind of life. But, as the sole moral agents among Earth's millions of species, humans ought also to conserve Earth's biological processes of value, processes that precede and exceed the human presence. Conservation goals, although cultural attitudes, ought not to be merely cultural attitudes, but ought to conserve nonanthropocentric biological values present. Biology without conservation is a contradiction in terms, as well as misfit in its environment.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, 1932-, Biology Without Conservation: An Environmental Misfit and Contradiction in Terms, in David Western and Mary C. Pearl, eds., Conservation for the Twenty-first Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 232-240.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/233887
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectbiodiversity
dc.subjectconservation
dc.subjectintrinsic value
dc.subjectinstrumental value
dc.subjecthumans
dc.subjectmoral agents
dc.subjectmoral responsibility
dc.subjectenvironmental ethics
dc.subjectnature and culture
dc.subjectnonanthropocentrism
dc.titleBiology without conservation: an environmental misfit and contradiction in terms
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